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this newspaper as well as all AP newt dispatches. i All rights of publication or special dispatches are also reserved. Editorial, Page Six By PAUL SCOTT WASHINGTON A major drive is being mounted in Congress to have American motorists foot a large portion of the future cost of rapid mass transit projects planned by the nation's big cities. Launched by a group of lawmakers headed by Rep. Wright Patman and Sen.

Harrison A. Williams the controversial campaign is designed to earmark federal monies now being raised by the seven per cent excise tax on new car purchases. A rapid mass transit trust fund modeled FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1969 appropriations. The opponents want Congress to keep that system. AAA officials say privately that they hope to have the Patman bill, since it involves taxes, shifted to the House Ways and Means Committee, headed by Rep.

Wilbur Mills' In the Mills' committee has vigorously opposed the earmarking of revenue from the seven per cent auto excise tax. 1 This jurisdiction switch will be 'Strongly opposed by Patman and Williams on the grounds the Patman bill is an amendment to the Mass Transportation Act of 1964, which was originally handled by the Banking and Currency Committee, w' In their opposition to the Williams and Patman proposals, the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) plans to push for the earmarking 6f part of the auto excise tax to finance the burial of junkyard car bodies. The AASHO claims that the prob-, lem-of junked cars is now so big the federal help will be needed if it is to be solved. It's Our Opinion ajwittinfiibtaiwi Success Of Space Flights Make A Moon Landing Almost Certain Now after the Highway Trust Fund, which earmarks road-users' taxes to the Interstate Highway would be established under legislation now being pushed by the Williams-Patman Their formula would set aside an estimated $1.8 billion between 1971 and 1974 liliif rm through a graduated diver sion of the auto excise 1 tax St'OTT revenues: Monies from this scheduled to total $1,9 billion during fiscal year 1970, now goes directly into the Treasury. 'I DECIDED TO ABOUND AWHILE WHAT AKENOU CONS TONIGUT? Beachcomber WESLEY STOUt SWEDEN'S DOUBLE STANDARD In handling military deserters and refugees from foreign countries, Sweden has operated under a double "standard.

While asylum is granted American military deserters, the Swedish government has gone out of its way to turn over to Russia military refugees that it requests. A study made by the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Sweden's handling of military refugees and deserters highlights this double standard, stating: "Not only is the policy of accepting and helping support U.S. military deserters one of choice on the part of the Swedish government, but it is a policy' which has not been consistently followed in the past. 1 "The subcommittee has noted that the Swedish government disregarded humanitarian consideration regarding military refugees in the immediate post-World War II period. This involved the famous 'Baltic "According to accounts available to the-subcommittee, approximately 3,000 Germans, Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian soldiers had fled to Sweden to escape capture by Russian forces.

Many had risked their lives in crossing the Baltic in rowboats. They went io Sweden seeking asylum from the almost certain fate of Siberia or slaughter which awaited them if captured by the Russians. "In callous disregard of the fate of these military refugees, Sweden, in compliance with Russian demands, turned over these refugee soldiers to the Russian government. ''In. other words, the Swedish government chose, in the Baltic affair, not to give sanctuary to the German, Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian troops who were actually in Sweden at the time and chose instead, to consign them to Russian authorities.

"In contrast, the Swedish government today chooses to grant sanctuary to deserters and defectors from the Armed Forces of the U.S." 10-WW1 Plate Bid Is Up To $3,000 IN ONE HOUR on the phone Tuesday, switching back and forth between the two remaining contestants for car tag 10-WWl, Art Moninger worked the high bid from $2,000 up to $3,000, a tidy sum for the beautification of our highways. The polls are still open. A TAMPA REPORTER asked a stewardess on the Seaboard's Silver Star TO DRUM UP. public support for shifting these revenues to help the big cities lick their transportation bottlenecks, Patman, chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, has scheduled open hearings on the trust-fund proposal after the Easter congressional recess. The nation's big city mayors, chamber of commerce spokesmen and rapid transit officials are being lined up by Williams and Patman to testify, in support of their controversial measure.

"They're all with us to a man and to an institution," Williams tells Senate colleagues in urging their backing to support tapping of this huge source to help big city commuters. ADMINISTRATION BACKING Significantly, Williams and Patman have won tentative backing from the Nixon Administration. While there has been no agreement yet on the earmarking of the auto excise tax revenues, Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe has endorsed the idea of creating a special trust fund to pour billions into new rapid transit systems for the nation's congested metropolitan areas. Volpe was sold on the idea by James D.

Braman, the former Seattle Mayor whom the Senate is expected to confirm shortly as Department of Transportation's Assistant Secretary of Urban Systems and Environment. Braman is considered to be one of the authors of the trust fund proposal. The opposition to earmarking of the auto-excise tax will come from the American Automobile Association and' a number of governors and state highway officials. They are concerned that the move will lead to the diversion of otter road-user taxes which are now earmarked for spending on the nation's highways. THE ENTIRE FEDERAL mass transit program now amounts to about $75 million a year and depends upon annual congressional why she preferred trains to planes.

"Airline hostesses are no more than glorified waitresses," said she. "Our passengers walk to the dining car for meals and they don't have to worry about being hijacked I to Havana." FIRST OF travelers' checks, as. we recall it," means 1,832 women are running loose and reading McCalls somewhere in Chilmark. Should the 140 men run for their lives? Joseph G. Kraetzer (male)." REMARKABLE REMARKS: "When our modern Jeremiahs attribute the uneasiness about the uncertainty of the use of the atom bomb, and the tensions of a technological age that induces ulcers, mental illness and even suicide, they might reflect that all these afflictions taken together do not.

attain the magnitude of the concern of the 17th Century Englishman about the state of his soul." Carl Bridenbaugh. "RUMBLE STRIPS" have been installed at a Boynton intersection where three died lately. We first encountered these in St. Lucie and Highlands counties at blinking red light crossings. Half-inch high and six-inch wide asphal-, tic concrete strips of eight are set 925-feet and 725-feet from a red blinker, alerting the most careless driver.

Andytown needs them badly. E. MAXWELL objects that, the greatest land-clearing operation ever was the AEC project near Aiken, S.C., not Walt Disney World, "aside from a few enormous dams." We incline to think he or she is right, and doubt that any dams have equalled it. CHET TOMPKINS writes to ask what became of Dearborn, Mich. mayor's plan to convert a big Clearwater apartment house into a retirement home, for Dearborn Though Dearborn has four times voted down Mayor Hubbard's 1958 Dearborn, plan, the city bought the bankrupt building, renaming it Dearborn Towers, and an appellate court has validated the purchase.

THE MOTIVES In discussing the motives of the Swedish government in establishing this double standard, the subcommittee report concludes: "One can only speculate as to the motives of the Swedish government in sending thousands of World War II refugee soldiers to Russia and the fate awaiting them, while today the Swedish government gives aid and comfort to deserters and defectors who have fled to Sweden to escape U.S. military jurisdiction and punishment for their crimes." were American Express'. In 1916, as a correspondent with the Army on the Mexican border, we equipped ourselves with these. They were accepted without comment at Lardeo, but when we moved up river to Eagle Pass and tried to pay our hotel bill with one, the crusty owner said, "What's this?" We explained and wasted our words. "Out this way, we use money, not United Cigar said he.

"The banks take them," we protested. "Then hop down to the bank, and get me my money," he ordered. We did. LETTER IN the Martha's Vineyard, Gazette: "Now I have a real problem. McCalls Magazine advised my wife that 1,192 'lively' women in the Chilmark area read McCalls and would she become 1,193.

The latest Chilmark census shows a total of 300, of which 160 are female from 1 to 100. Now, dear oracle, that Letters to the Editor Wrtten mutt keep tetttrt short. Brief letters will bt lven priority; Names will be withheld on request, but ether letters will be siven precedence over those using pen Mines. The right is reserved to roloct or edit any letter. pROM BLASTOFF TO SPLASHDOWN Apollo 9's 10-day space flight mission proved to be another amazingly successful step to what now appears to be an almost certain landing on the moon later this year.

As of now, space officials don't know what will come next on the moon-landing schedule. As originally planned, another moon exploration and moon orbiting flight was due to follow Apollo 9. Now, however, there has been conjecture that the flawless performance racked up by Apollo 9 and its crew may well bring about a change in schedule that will convert the Apollo 10 flight into a moon-landing flight instead of another moon-orbital journey. A final decision on this question won't be made for another two weeks according to what space officials said yesterday following the recovery of Apollo 9 and the three astronauts who put that craft through its paces. Before making such an important decision NASA scientists and officials will no doubt want to thoroughly review every aspect of the moon-landing venture with the crew of Apollo 9 in order to deter- mine if any further testing of the lunar module is necessary before a landing on the moon is attempted.

THE APOLLO 9 FLIGHT PROVED virtually beyond doubt that the lunar module can do the job it was designed to do. There is still a big difference, however, between the experiments carried on in space by Apollo 9 and in what will have to be done to put men not only on the moon, but to get them back off and linked back up to their command module, safely and successfully. The Apollo 9 flight was risky in that it marked the first time we put astronauts in a space vehicle incapable of bringing them back to earth if it couldn't get linked back up with the craft from which it was separated. But even if trouble had occurred on the Apollo 9 experiment which prevented a linkup, there was still a good possibility the astronauts in the lunar module could have been rescued by the command module. But this rescue possibility will not exist if something should go wrong which would prevent the lunar module from leaving the moon aftea it has landed there.

In that event the astronauts who are scheduled to accompany it down and be the first human beings to step foot on the moon will die there. THAT IS WHY NASA OFFICIALS want to take every possible precaution and want to be certain they have gained all the knowledge necessary, to this projected moon-landing voyage before they make any final commitment to it. After waiting as long as we have and spending as much money as we have on this whole moon-landing project, it would be rather stupid for those in charge of our space program to take any unnecessary risks and jeopardize the whole deal now by rushing too fast. From what we understand, even should the Apollo 10 flight be canceled, it would still not mean the actual moon-landing flight could be materially advanced from the July date on which it is now scheduled. Thus, while a cancellation of Apollo 10 as unnecessary could save a good bit of money, there's still a very strong possibility that if NASA officials feel it will provide further safeguards and further required information, it will still precede any actual moon-landing flight.

QETTING BACK TO APOLLO 9, however, one of the most remarkable aspects of that flight is just how quickly most of us have now come to regard as routine, events that would have flabbergasted us just a few, short years ago. It has been just eight years since we sent our first astronaut into space and all of America waited tensely by until he and his space capsule came back down and were plucked from the ocean by recovery teams. Now, some 18 space flights later, these things have become so routine we virtually take it for granted they are going to come off perfectly and we have even reached the point where we can watch a splashdown via live television. Quite possibly, if and when the projected moon landing does take place, there will be live television coverage of that also. If anybody had predicted eight years ago that both space travel and space television would have progressed this far by 1969, there would have been few who would have believed such predictions.

Now, however, we've already seen live pictures televised from a space ship in orbit around the moon and nobody doubts anymore but that if men land there in a few months that epochal event will be brought to our living rooms via television cameras also. But after the moon, then what? Will it be Mars, Venus or some other even more distant planet? Who knows and what's more who would even dare to predict after what we have witnessed just since 1961 when our space program celebrated its first manned space flight? No Atheists I read with great interest your "Letter to the Editor" section. My professor in journalism told me that only crackpots wrote to the editor, he included himself. I find your editorials most refreshing. However, you bore me to tears with all the problems with Mrs.

O'Hair. If she doesn't want to believe in God, then let her. This is a free country, and if she wants to have her say- real life, these are not the values with society's approval. Also the trend in camera work emphasizes sadism, which is enjoyment of another's pain. The opposite of this is kindness, which is enjoyment of another's pleasure.

We have many slap-stick comedy shows. Even these have increasingly made fun of the good values; especially the enjoyment of doing a job well! MR. MRS. FRANCIS J. FELBER Little World WALLIE NELSEN People Crackers vs.

Animal Crackers Word Defined YOU MAY HAVE seen in the newspapers that a company is now making "people crackers" which are a turnabout on animal crackers. As you know, the crackers we know about are shaped as animals. Well, these new ones are shaped like people, and you buy them for your dog. Shapes of the crackers are designed to suit the tastes of most dogs. Most popular are expected to be'' i those which look like gar-bage collectors or most any- one on a bicycle.

There may be a danger of creating an appetite for certain people with the new people crackers, but anything to make a dog 5 happy. Your readers may not always agree with your latest columnist, John P. Roche, but sometimes he comes up with a demonstration of 'wordology' that is so apt it is absolutely amazing. In this case it could be one of the reasons the New York Times refers to him as former President Johnson's "resident intellectual," or sometimes, known as the White House brain picker. Those who may have read Roche's column in your edition of Feb.

22, and got down as far as his last paragraph may have been a little puzzled with the intellectual's use of the word "catatonic." When I hit that one in his description of Mr. Johnson's type of political paralysis in 1967-68, it sent me scurrying to my trusty dictionary. Catatpnic, it seems, is the adjective of the word "catatonia" which Webster defines as follows: "A severe type of dementia praecox, characterized by negativism and incoherence and often by catalepsy with alternate periods of stupor and activity." R. B. McCAIN Probably the idea is for dogs to get rid of their hostil-, ity by biting crackers instead of the big Lago Mar Hotel and goes there with an enviable reputation in hotel management.

If he is as good a manager as his mother and father, who live across from us, are neighbors, the Lago Mar is in good hands. 1 HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Louise Barth who will be 101 tomorrow. "HAD A TREMENDOUS experience in Switzerland when I traveled Europe last autumn," wrote Eleanor Wood, "Spent' myself out of money and traveled from Lucerne to Wiesbaden and down the Rhine to Rotterdam on $1.75. Money was not forthcoming because my Ft. Lauderdale bank had to have my bankbook before they could release funds.

I could write a book." NOTE TO C.F. WILLIAMS: Jim Farley informs us that if your brother will write to "Civil War Times, Illustrated" in Gettysburg Zip code, 17325 he can probably get a line on the book "The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy." This firm seems to be headquarters for all kinds of Civil War items. You're welcome. DON'T TELL US that people do not read this column, and don't tell us either, that people do not eat peanut butter. We have now mailed out more than 60 of those Simonsen's peanut butter recipes.

If you asked for one and we failed to send it, please ask us again. We just had another batch made. We got a notion to make one of those pies ourself. MEDICAL RUN-DOWN Walking was a healthful sport: Running maybe more so. Hiking once had loud support It helped tune up the torso.

But now the fad is jogging, Many health columns hint. It seems to be all the news That fit ones want to sprint. Arch Napier in Editor Publisher THAT DOES IT so, let ner. They have a very old saying, "There are no atheists in fox holes." I know my last, statement is to the Almighty before an operation, and I know who I pray to when my children are undergoing surgery. A BELIEVER Teen Vote? No! Weaklings who drool over the Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon idea of giving the vote to teenagers should first read the splendid article "The Thinking Capp" in your recent "This Week" magazine supplement.

When teenagers lead in reckless driving, minor and major crimes, sexual offenses and submissions, marijuana and narcotics use, draft evasions, campus rioting, participation in nude shows and pornographic "art," venereal disease, lawless disrespect for university training and education, and other categories of objectionable traits and habits, it's not the time to turn over to these juveniles the ballot box for their indiscriminate amusement or destruction. A glance at any lengthy, list of the world's greatest leaders men in any walk of life-reveals that their service to humanity or, contributions to our intellectual and economic advancement came long after they weathered their teen-age years. Let's give oats to horses, but not votes to jackasses! WORLD WAR VETERAN Better Television There is a controversy over the value of television, especially current programming. We feel television has its best value in teaching; we have so many fine educational shows that no one would argue that this is television at its best. But I do not believe that you can use this value of television as an argument to uphold the increasing violence, hate, and sex.

Which do you see the good or the bad? We are lacking in the shows that teach and emphasize love, goodness, and kindness, as the best values in life. The educational shows give us intellectualism; but they do not teach love. While you have violence, hate, and sex, in of people, which leads us to the logical next step which" is: How about people crackers for people? For kids you could feature crackers which looked like teachers or parents. For various moods, you could keep on hand crackers resembling a banker, a post office clerk, the person who pushes you around in a supermarket. Would it not be a good idea to keep in a secret place a people cracker looking like your wife or husband for moments of real exasperation? Always at hand a supply of those with round collars for a quick violent crunch, -YourWashington Eft 1 AWif Avrnc iiMiinin.4 SENATE THE ABOVE we swiped from the Southern Light, church bulletin for the Church of the Intercession, which is edited by Rev.

Bruce Whitehead, Vicar. Rev. Whitehead is a former country newspaper editor, as you might know. Who else but one of those former, blessed country editors would think up something like the above? U.S. SEN.

SPESSARD L. HOLLAND, Room 421, Senate Office Washington, D. 20510. U.S. SEN.

EDWARD GURNEY, Senate Office Washington, D. C. 20510. CONGRESS Tenth District, Broward REP. J.

HERBERT BURKE, 1127 Long worth Washington. D. C. 20515. Ninth District, Palm Beach REP.

PAUL G. ROGERS. 2417 Rayburi Washington, D. C. 20515.

MEDITATION FOR TODAY Even much worse than a storm or a riot Is a bunch of kids who are suddenly quiet. 1 Jim Woods. STANLEY GRAZDIEL is the new manager.